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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger, put on your reassuring hat and tell me how unlikely this scenario is:
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More remarkably, Tepco warned on Wednesday: "The possibility of re-criticality is not zero".
This meant that in the company's view, it was possible that enough fissile uranium was present in the cooling pond in enough density to form a critical mass.
In other words, a nuclear fission chain reaction could start in a pond that lies outside parts of the building designed to contain radioactive materials.
BoingBoing folks are saying the NYT paywall can be referrer-spoofed. I'm sure that's short-lived, but wow.
I believe in paying something for good, disinterested, investigative journalism; I just think $15 is too much. I did get an email with the pricing structure and with the free 20, etc, it's not so bad.
Would $15/month be too much for the print edition? Just curious.
Yeah, $15/month isn't really very much, BUT it's hard to get away from the internet=free mentality.
BUT it's hard to get away from the internet=free mentality.
This is the thing. The writers do the same amount of work to put a story online as they do on paper.
I get over 3 months of my local paper for $15, so that does seem like a lot.
Can we buy one subscription as Buffistas and everybody logs in? Probably not, huh?
For me at this point, a print newspaper is useless. I have no time at home to read it, it's too big and the cats sit on it if I read it on the floor, and I've read the Times online for so long I am deeply disconcerted by the arrangement of the print. (My mother is visiting and is buying the Times daily and it's so weird.)
But I'm cheap. I don't spend $5 on coffee a day - I maybe buy a coffee out once a month. I bring my lunch. I pay $30 a month for the cheapest TV service I could get, and would pay nothing if there were over-the-air reception of PBS in my town. I'm actually thinking of cancelling TV, but it would be a big fight with my kids. Well, and my husband, probably.
Admittedly, I have never been one for reading the newspaper. I get the Sunday paper delivered now so I can skim through it, maybe, but mostly so I have something to wrap worm food in, and to use as kindling.